This study originated from personal experience, as a member of a Board of Trustee (BOT) within Kura Kaupapa Maaori (KKM). The workload required for Kura compliance with government regulation and legislation, was phenomenal. The BOT model seemed to be structured on a corporate model of governance with accountability to the Ministry of Education. This contradicted with the needs of Kura whaanau to be involved in Kura decisionmaking. The BOT model unintentionally created a separation and tension between whaanau and BOT members. This research set out to explore the BOT model of governance within our Kura, from a cultural perspective, rather, than researching problems identified by ERa. The research undertook a review of the literature that placed the BOT model within the 1984 -1990 Economic Reforms. It highlighted the impact of past government policies, and administration, on the Maaori language and culture to illuminate the cultural, economic, political and social context of the establishment of Kura Kaupapa Maaori and the doctrine of Te Aho Matua (TAM). The BOT model, and KKM/TAM, are founded on differing values. The study was approached from a Kaupapa Maaori perspective; not wishing to reaffirm the negative stigma of past research undertaken of Maaori. The objectives of the study were to gain an understanding of whaanau cultural capacity, perceptions and understanding of KKM and TAM; and also, whaanau understanding of the BOT model. The research design consisted of a case study. This involved a questionnaire to all whaanau; and in-depth discussions with a sample of twelve whaanau. Appropriate ethical considerations were given to the process, which addressed both academic and cultural needs. Findings clearly identify the structure, and nature of the BOT model, being problematic within the cultural framework of a KKM underpinned by Te Aho Matua. The values and principles between the model and TAM fundamentally conflict. Findings also identify key factors, that both government and Kura whaanau can utilise, in advancing whaanau governance.

This study originated from personal experience, as a member of a Board of Trustee (BOT) within Kura Kaupapa Maaori (KKM). The workload required for Kura compliance with government regulation and legislation, was phenomenal. The BOT model seemed to be structured on a corporate model of governance with accountability to the Ministry of Education. This contradicted with the needs of Kura whaanau to be involved in Kura decisionmaking. The BOT model unintentionally created a separation and tension between whaanau and BOT members. This research set out to explore the BOT model of governance within our Kura, from a cultural perspective, rather, than researching problems identified by ERa. The research undertook a review of the literature that placed the BOT model within the 1984 -1990 Economic Reforms. It highlighted the impact of past government policies, and administration, on the Maaori language and culture to illuminate the cultural, economic, political and social context of the establishment of Kura Kaupapa Maaori and the doctrine of Te Aho Matua (TAM). The BOT model, and KKM/TAM, are founded on differing values. The study was approached from a Kaupapa Maaori perspective; not wishing to reaffirm the negative stigma of past research undertaken of Maaori. The objectives of the study were to gain an understanding of whaanau cultural capacity, perceptions and understanding of KKM and TAM; and also, whaanau understanding of the BOT model. The research design consisted of a case study. This involved a questionnaire to all whaanau; and in-depth discussions with a sample of twelve whaanau. Appropriate ethical considerations were given to the process, which addressed both academic and cultural needs. Findings clearly identify the structure, and nature of the BOT model, being problematic within the cultural framework of a KKM underpinned by Te Aho Matua. The values and principles between the model and TAM fundamentally conflict. Findings also identify key factors, that both government and Kura whaanau can utilise, in advancing whaanau governance.

This study originated from personal experience, as a member of a Board of Trustee (BOT) within Kura Kaupapa Maaori (KKM). The workload required for Kura compliance with government regulation and legislation, was phenomenal. The BOT model seemed to be structured on a corporate model of governance with accountability to the Ministry of Education. This contradicted with the needs of Kura whaanau to be involved in Kura decisionmaking. The BOT model unintentionally created a separation and tension between whaanau and BOT members. This research set out to explore the BOT model of governance within our Kura, from a cultural perspective, rather, than researching problems identified by ERa. The research undertook a review of the literature that placed the BOT model within the 1984 -1990 Economic Reforms. It highlighted the impact of past government policies, and administration, on the Maaori language and culture to illuminate the cultural, economic, political and social context of the establishment of Kura Kaupapa Maaori and the doctrine of Te Aho Matua (TAM). The BOT model, and KKM/TAM, are founded on differing values. The study was approached from a Kaupapa Maaori perspective; not wishing to reaffirm the negative stigma of past research undertaken of Maaori. The objectives of the study were to gain an understanding of whaanau cultural capacity, perceptions and understanding of KKM and TAM; and also, whaanau understanding of the BOT model. The research design consisted of a case study. This involved a questionnaire to all whaanau; and in-depth discussions with a sample of twelve whaanau. Appropriate ethical considerations were given to the process, which addressed both academic and cultural needs. Findings clearly identify the structure, and nature of the BOT model, being problematic within the cultural framework of a KKM underpinned by Te Aho Matua. The values and principles between the model and TAM fundamentally conflict. Findings also identify key factors, that both government and Kura whaanau can utilise, in advancing whaanau governance.

This study originated from personal experience, as a member of a Board of Trustee (BOT) within Kura Kaupapa Maaori (KKM). The workload required for Kura compliance with government regulation and legislation, was phenomenal. The BOT model seemed to be structured on a corporate model of governance with accountability to the Ministry of Education. This contradicted with the needs of Kura whaanau to be involved in Kura decisionmaking. The BOT model unintentionally created a separation and tension between whaanau and BOT members. This research set out to explore the BOT model of governance within our Kura, from a cultural perspective, rather, than researching problems identified by ERa. The research undertook a review of the literature that placed the BOT model within the 1984 -1990 Economic Reforms. It highlighted the impact of past government policies, and administration, on the Maaori language and culture to illuminate the cultural, economic, political and social context of the establishment of Kura Kaupapa Maaori and the doctrine of Te Aho Matua (TAM). The BOT model, and KKM/TAM, are founded on differing values. The study was approached from a Kaupapa Maaori perspective; not wishing to reaffirm the negative stigma of past research undertaken of Maaori. The objectives of the study were to gain an understanding of whaanau cultural capacity, perceptions and understanding of KKM and TAM; and also, whaanau understanding of the BOT model. The research design consisted of a case study. This involved a questionnaire to all whaanau; and in-depth discussions with a sample of twelve whaanau. Appropriate ethical considerations were given to the process, which addressed both academic and cultural needs. Findings clearly identify the structure, and nature of the BOT model, being problematic within the cultural framework of a KKM underpinned by Te Aho Matua. The values and principles between the model and TAM fundamentally conflict. Findings also identify key factors, that both government and Kura whaanau can utilise, in advancing whaanau governance.

This thesis considers the introduction of middle schooling to the New Zealand education system. It is a case study of a school going through the process of introducing the middle schooling concept. It seeks to identify and explain the considerable challenges that this school faced as it sought to implement this change. This research project began as a study of the factors which hinder and support the implementation of middle schooling structures and practices. It became an analysis of the features of middle schooling that make it such a challenging and problematic innovation. Middle schooling is a set of philosophical concepts, educational practices and structural arrangements for the education of students between the ages of approximately ten and fourteen years. These concepts and practices are based on the premise that students of this age have academic, social, emotional and physical needs which differ from students on either side of this age group. Middle schooling is generally understood to involve integrated curriculum which is delivered through team teaching. This approach to teaching and learning requires high levels of teacher collaboration, flexible workspaces and timetables and high levels of parental support and involvement. Ideally, middle schooling provides a separate school environment for children of this age. A number of school communities in New Zealand have gained government approval to restructure as middle schools and are at various stages in implementing this new form of schooling. The researcher began the study with the intention of developing guidelines to assist school communities to make this transition from the structures and processes of conventional schooling arrangements to those of middle schooling. To this end she initiated a programme of action research in a school that was about to introduce middle schooling arrangements for its middle years students. The innovation began to run into difficulties from an early stage and it became clear that an action research methodology was unsustainable. Instead, the researcher chose to refocus the research problem to a more analytic study of the factors that were impeding the implementation process. The research methodology evolved to that of case study. Observational data were collected in the school over two years. From these data, three factors seemed to be affecting the implementation of the middle schooling changes. These were the way in which leadership was being executed, the attitudes and responses of the teachers and the particularly complex and demanding nature of the middle schooling innovation itself. The data were then re-analysed with respect to these three factors. From this analysis, the researcher came to a number of conclusions about the relative importance and impact of these three factors. In an effort to ascertain whether the experiences of the case school were typical of the difficulties and challenges schools face when implementing middle schooling change, the case findings were cross checked against the experiences of two other schools that were five years or more into the change process. The cross checking found that the experiences of these other schools were very similar to those of the case school. All three found that implementing middle schooling change had been more difficult and demanding than any other innovation they had implemented. This study identified some aspects of leadership and teacher behaviour that may have slowed the implementation process, but these seem to have been secondary to the sheer complexity and challenges involved with this particular form of innovation. An innovation that requires such a shift in values, behaviour, structures and systems from a school community, and one that requires the sustained commitment of the entire staff over an extended period of time, will always prove to be exceptionally challenging. The case study identified five requirements that middle school implementers need to consider in order to implement the concept successfully. Failure to consider any of these requirements is likely to threaten the success of the innovation. The five requirements are: • The need to develop a shared understanding of the concept rationale and principles and how these will be operationalised within the school; • The need to develop a shared understanding of the complex, multi-faceted and integrated nature of the innovation and how this will impact on and influence the implementation process; • The need for strong, visionary, shared leadership; • The need to gain the interest and operational commitment of the entire staff and a high level of interest and commitment from the parent community and to sustain this for the life of the innovation; and • The need to develop supportive and appropriate infrastructure within the school to support the innovation.

A prominent idea in the decentralisation and development literature is that decentralisation leads to deeper and stronger community participation. This thesis seeks to examine this argument by investigating the practice of community participation in the Indonesian decentralisation context, focusing on parental participation through access to and control over school financial resources. Drawing on a case study in Depok city, the practice of parental involvement has been explored by identifying the characteristics and the extent of parents’ participation in school management. School Committees (SCs), as a mechanism of community involvement provided by the decentralised education policy, were also examined in this research to develop an understanding of parental representation in school management. The study found that the characteristics and the extent of parents’ participation in school management have changed and decreased significantly as a result of a new Free School Programme (FSP) introduced by the government in 2009 which freed parents from school operational cost. Prior to FSP, parents actively participated in terms of supplying resources and involvement in school meetings, had some access to financial information, and had limited engagement with school budgeting through representation in SCs. However, the new absence of financial contribution by parents has affected parental participation by transforming it into a weaker form of participation where parents act as mere beneficiaries. The study also revealed that in the Indonesian context, the SCs, as institutional channels for community involvement in education provided by the education decentralisation policy, are not effective in terms of representing and engaging parents in school management. Based on the evidence above, this thesis concluded that in the context of the Indonesian education system, decentralisation has not necessarily enhanced community participation. In this respect, decentralisation is not the only possible answer for achieving a meaningful and empowering parental participation in education. Furthermore, other contextual factors surrounding participation also have to be taken into account. While FSP brings the benefit of allowing students to access education freely, the absence of parental financial contribution has been proved to impact parental participation in a way that is contradictory to one of the purposes of decentralisation policy, which is to engage the community in educational management.

A prominent idea in the decentralisation and development literature is that decentralisation leads to deeper and stronger community participation. This thesis seeks to examine this argument by investigating the practice of community participation in the Indonesian decentralisation context, focusing on parental participation through access to and control over school financial resources. Drawing on a case study in Depok city, the practice of parental involvement has been explored by identifying the characteristics and the extent of parents’ participation in school management. School Committees (SCs), as a mechanism of community involvement provided by the decentralised education policy, were also examined in this research to develop an understanding of parental representation in school management. The study found that the characteristics and the extent of parents’ participation in school management have changed and decreased significantly as a result of a new Free School Programme (FSP) introduced by the government in 2009 which freed parents from school operational cost. Prior to FSP, parents actively participated in terms of supplying resources and involvement in school meetings, had some access to financial information, and had limited engagement with school budgeting through representation in SCs. However, the new absence of financial contribution by parents has affected parental participation by transforming it into a weaker form of participation where parents act as mere beneficiaries. The study also revealed that in the Indonesian context, the SCs, as institutional channels for community involvement in education provided by the education decentralisation policy, are not effective in terms of representing and engaging parents in school management. Based on the evidence above, this thesis concluded that in the context of the Indonesian education system, decentralisation has not necessarily enhanced community participation. In this respect, decentralisation is not the only possible answer for achieving a meaningful and empowering parental participation in education. Furthermore, other contextual factors surrounding participation also have to be taken into account. While FSP brings the benefit of allowing students to access education freely, the absence of parental financial contribution has been proved to impact parental participation in a way that is contradictory to one of the purposes of decentralisation policy, which is to engage the community in educational management.

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[pt] O estudo analisa o financiamento das redes municipais de educação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e os desafios para a gestão da política educacional local, a partir de estudos de caso em três municípios: Angra dos Reis, Itaboraí e Teresópolis. Para tanto, foram utilizadas as informações do Censo Escolar relativas às matriculas, do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) a respeito das características gerais dos municípios, do anuário Finanças dos Municípios Fluminenses sobre os recursos municipais e, sobretudo, informações sobre os gastos em educação disponibilizadas no Sistema de Informações sobre Orçamentos Públicos em Educação. Foi assim possível traçar o perfil do financiamento da educação nos municípios do Estado e seus desafios para a oferta de uma educação de qualidade. Como estratégia complementar de pesquisa foram realizadas entrevistas com técnicos e gestores dos respectivos órgãos municipais de educação, além de sindicalistas. A interlocução com a literatura e o material empírico produzido nos permitiu organizar a análise em torno dos seguintes eixos: divisão de responsabilidades na oferta de matrículas nos níveis prioritário de atuação dos municípios, desenho da política de financiamento, contexto político local e capacidade burocrática local para administrar o financiamento das redes de ensino. Já na década de 1970, os municípios fluminenses respondiam por grande parte das matrículas do ensino fundamental, embora a municipalização tenha sido acelerada a partir da implantação do Fundef. A ampliação da obrigatoriedade da oferta de educação básica gratuita para aqueles com idade entre 4 e 17 anos a partir de 2010, aumentou a responsabilidade dos municípios pela criação de novas vagas. Embora a substituição do Fundef pelo Fundeb em 2007, tenha favorecido o financiamento da educação infantil, observamos que o atual desenho da política de financiamento não é suficiente para a promoção da educação pública de qualidade, dada a reduzida participação da União no financiamento da educação básica e a limitada capacidade econômica e gerencial dos municípios, agravada também pela descontinuidade das políticas locais e de sua gestão. Diante desse cenário, faz-se necessário redefinir, em nível nacional, o papel de cada ente federado, pela regulamentação do regime de colaboração previsto na Constituição Federal de 1988, com a revisão da política de financiamento - incluindo a revisão da repartição de recursos do Fundeb, com vistas à implantação do Custo-Aluno Qualidade previsto no Plano Nacional de Educação. Em nível local, faz-se necessária a definição de regras mais claras para a composição e permanência e a formação continuada dos técnicos e gestores que atuam nas secretarias municipais de educação e o efetivo controle social dos recursos da educação, tendo no Siope importante instrumento para a busca da educação pública de qualidade. / [en] The study analyzes the financing of municipal education networks in the State of Rio de Janeiro and the challenges for local educational policy management, based in case studies in the municipalities of Angra dos Reis, Itaboraí and Teresópolis. In order to do so, we used the information on enrollment, from the Censo Escolar, regarding the enrollment of the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatísticas (IBGE), of finance, based on information from the Finanças dos Municípios Fluminenses yearbook and, above all, information on education expenditures, provided in the the Sistema de Informações sobre Orçamentos Públicos em Educação. It was thus possible to trace the profile of education financing in the municipalities of the State and its challenges for the provision of quality education. As a complementary research strategy, interviews were conducted with technicians and managers of the respective municipal education agencies, as well as trade unionists. The interlocution with the literature and the empirical material produced allowed us to identify the organization of the analysis around the following axes: division of responsibilities in the provision of enrollments in the priority levels of action of the municipalities, design of the financing policy, local political context and local bureaucratic capacity to manage the funding of education networks. In the 1970s, Rio de Janeiro municipalities accounted for a large part of primary school enrollment, although municipalization was accelerated after the implementation of Fundef. The increase in the obligation to offer free basic education to those aged between 4 and 17 years from 2010 has increased the responsibility of municipalities for the creation of new school vacancies. Although Fundef s replacement of Fundeb in 2007 has favored funding for early childhood education, we note that the current design of funding policy is not sufficient for the promotion of quality public education, in fuction the federal government reduced participation in the financing of basic education and the limited economic and managerial capacity of the municipalities, also aggravated by the discontinuity of local policies and their management. Against this backdrop, it is necessary to redefine, at the national level, the role of each federated entity, by regulating the collaboration regime provided for in the Federal Constitution of 1988, as well as changes in the Fundeb, expected to be in force until 2020 and imposing a loss of financial resources to several municipalities of the State, the design of the financing policy, the implementation of the Cost-Student Initial Quality and later the Cost-Student Quality, as provided for in the Plano Nacional de Educação. At the local level, it is necessary to define clearer rules for the composition and permanence and the ongoing formation of the bureaucracies that work in the municipal secretariats of education and the effective social control of the resources of education, with the Siope important instrumental in the search of quality public education.

The dynamism of participation in the minutes of the CONEI meetings This is a discussion about the results of a documentary research about the participative dynamics into the minutes of the CONEI (Consejo Educativo Institucional) meetings of four public schools from Lima. The qualitative analysis of the minutes reveals that the participation characterizes for being formal, bureaucratic, unidirectional and conflicted; that is focused in the administrative and economic issues of the educational management. The discourse expresses an ideal vision about participation but negative about conflict. Also, the participation in the meeting is considered like being in the meeting, and the leadership of the principal and the teachers stands out, however, the students and parents are excluded or autoexcluded. / En este artículo se discute los resultados de una investigación documental sobre la dinámica participativa en las actas de reuniones del Consejo Educativo Institucional (CONEI) de cuatro escuelas públicas de Lima. El análisis cualitativo de las actas revela que la participación de los actores se caracteriza por ser formal, burocrática, unidireccional y conflictiva, centrada en los aspectos administrativos y económicos de la gestión de la escuela. El discurso expresa una visión ideal de la participación pero negativa del conflicto, a la vez que se equipara el significado de participación con acto de presencia en la reunión, donde se destaca el protagonismo del director y los docentes, y la exclusión o autoexclusión de los estudiantes y padres de familia.